Experience

Current Status

Aug 2012 – PresentMusketeers.meFounding Partner / Creative Director
The design and front end developer of a fantastically talented group of developers. We take on enterprise-level jobs and make hardened, stable and beautiful websites that are intuitive and easy to use.

Employment/Client History

Dec 2016 – Sep 2017Yakabod, Inc.Web Applications DeveloperFront End Design and Development. For development, I Participate in an Agile environment, utilizing SASS, jQuery, reactJS (only in a tweaking capacity), PHP. I work in PHPStorm, and use gulp for compiling JSX. For UI and UX design, I use Adobe XD and inDesign to mock up the designs and support the Developers by implementing the look in CSS (SCSS).

Jan 2013 – Presentphp[architect]Art Director
Redesigned the look and feel of the world’s longest continually running monthly magazine for PHP developers. Laid out magazine for over 3.5 years, seeing it from digital-only through digital and print. Managed advertising for over two years. The magazine is still running with over 1500 subscribers.

Aug 2011 – Jul 2012mojoLive.comCreative Director
Creating the look and feel as well as the user interface for mojoLive.com. Overseeing several designers and managing workflow while maintaining a creative environment that grows the individual artist.

Funding for this startup went dry in July 2012.

Feb 2010 – Aug 2011SAIC- FrederickWeb Developer
Developed web applications for NCI scientists. Working within a proprietary framework in PHP, creating web applications to help scientists find a cure for Cancer. Object oriented structures in PHP. Also working with jQuery, Scriptaculous and SQL.

Sep 2007 – Feb 2010Philips HadcoArt Director, then Communications Manager (Webmaster/Developer/Designer)
Upgrade and maintain corporate websites for Hadco lighting. Redesigned bot sites as well as created microsites for product launches. Hadco is now a division of Philips North America Lighting. I wrote a usability report that lead to an Information Architecture redesign. I tweaked the code written in.NET by Cimbrian (Lancaster, PA) to work with new navigation structure. Created OOP-based email list manager in PHP 5.2 for MS SQL Server.

May 2003— Sep 2005Maryland Sea Grant
College Park, MDEducational Web Designer
Create, Publish and maintain scienceinquiry.org. This position had a varied scope of duties which included creating a custom CMS in PHP 5.1/MSQL 5.1 for mdsg.umd.edu. Creating e-learning systems for educators to post lessons for peer review. Creating and maintained grant website for grant participants. Creating and maintaining a CMS for Environment Science Education Partnership using the same e-learning systems. All site work done in procedural PHP.

Other duties included constant interactions with grant participants, video production of convention events, post-production using Final Cut Pro software.

Mar 2001 — May 2003Bruce Creative Owner
I freelanced for the two years that we lived out in Beaverton, Oregon. With the time I had I taught myself PHP/MySQL, designing and coding for several clients. Starting from a simple forum to creating a basic CMS with a member pay systems, newsletter system and community apps such as forums and chat.

Oct 1999 — Mar 2001
Healant e-care businessSenior Web Designer
This was mostly a pure design position where I was the only designer that knew any HTML/CSS or Javascript. This enabled me to better interact with the developers to give them realistic and workable designs, enabling us to push the barriers and little more.

1998 — 1999
CorData TechnologiesArt Director
I “cut my web teeth” in this position, learning everything I could about HTML and CSS and Javascript. I dove into Dreamweaver 1.0 and Flash 1.0. I learned about web servers and systems. I never touched any server-side during this stint. I worked on many local clients’ sites as well as Volvo Action Services internal employee portal.

1993 -1998
Riddle & Cockrell, Inc.Illustrator/Designer
Illustrated town buildings first in pen & ink, then Photoshop for placement in “Our Town” style jacquard woven afghans. I was top producer for much of the time.
Was one of two designers picked in the company to start the desktop publishing department, designing catalogs and brochures for the product lines.